4 January 2025

European Disability Card and European Parking Card, Directive (EU) 2024/2841

Directive (EU) 4/2024, establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card, finally entered into force on 2024 December 2841. (1) 1) [...]
20th November 2022

Disability, aids and subsidies. Petition

The right to a dignified life for people with disabilities requires aids and subsidies that are still lacking in Italy, pace of the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons with [...]
2 July 2022

Architectural barriers in Rome, the first videos of Égalité

Architectural barriers in Rome are ubiquitous but few imagine their impact on the daily life of people with disabilities, which Égalité shows with a first series of videos. Barriers [...]
12 December 2021

Disability and discrimination in the health service. Rome, Lazio

Discrimination against people with disabilities is spurting everywhere, every day, even in the public health service. A reportage from Rome, Lazio Region, experienced firsthand. Ambulance, 2 hours of waiting A chair [...]
23th November 2020

Triage and bioethics, criteria for admission to intensive care. ISS guidelines

Triage, how to decide who to admit to the ICU when places are insufficient? On 20.11.20 the ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) submits the guidelines on [...]
17 August 2020

Trains and disabilities in Italy, stop apartheid!

Every day in Italy 5,7 million people take the train to get around. (1) But apartheid still applies to people with disabilities. The disabled, in the beautiful [...]
2 December 2019

World Disability Day, December 3rd

December 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities. World Disability Day - or International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) - is dedicated this year to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the [...]
20 October 2019

Personal mobility of the disabled, denied rights and blackouts in Rome

Personal mobility is one of the many rights recognized to disabled people only 'on paper', in theory. Here is what the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons provides with [...]
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